Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

There are many influential African Americans in US History. Many have stood up against slavery, segregation and racial legacy ...

Henry Brown escapes slavery by mailing himself in a small wooden box to a free state. But that’s less than half his story. In ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...

In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts, took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...